The lab experiments fall under the scope of the European IBSEN research project: Bridging the gap: from Individual Behavior to the Socio-tEchnical MaN. The 3-year IBSEN project, that starts on September 1,2015 aims to find a breakthrough by examining human behavior in large (1000+ persons) structured groups using controlled lab and web experiments.
If successful, researchers will be able to build on findings to develop a human behavior simulator, a technology providing a basis for socio-economic simulations that would radically change many fields, from robotics to economics, with technological and societal impacts, including policy-making in socially pressing issues. Researcherswill thus lay the foundations to kick start a new way of doing social science for the problems arising in a technologically highly connected society.
The total Horizon 2020 grant amount is 2.6 million euro, with 400,000 euro earmarked for the UvA. Current TI PhD student Anita Kopanyi-Peuker will be appointed as a post-doc to the project.